Make believe you're an old fashion tobacco salesman .....

[T206DK]

hmmm, maybe the fact that it didn't last long on the market means that the blend was not appealing. Maybe smokers thought it tasted bad, and there weren't enough chewers of tobacco buying it to garner actual production. just a thought

[Potomac Yank]

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If the smoking tobacco cards, were all in a chewing tobacco tin, wouldn't they all be stained?

[T206DK]

Joe, you might have to think outside the box , so to speak, on this issue. While I have never heard of or seen a Polar Bear card that didn't have some type of stain on it I'm sure it's possible. I still think the cards with no gloss were inserted into something....whether it was a tin of tobacco or a pack that we have never seen I don't know. The Glossy cards , I believe, were most likely an enticement or advertising tool used to either promote the brand to dealers or entice customers to come back for more. If that's the case, how many free Cobb cards would a smoker have to receive or be offered before they just told the sales clerk " no thanks , I've already got some"
The staining on the Goodwin Auctions card could actually be a water stain of somekind too , in my view. It is brownish, but it doesn't look like a stain made from a card laying on or against tobacco.necessarily.
You can uncover all the historical evidence you would like to share on Chewing of Tobacco, but I have an actual expample of a person who smoked cut plug ( my grandfather). I asked my dad again today if he though his dad ever chewed tobacco , and he laughed at the idea and said definitely " no". So despite the fact that ATC used the terms associated with "chewing" tobacco, I still believe it was smoked in cigarettes and pipes back then.
Maybe folks who bought TY Cobb thought it was crappy to chew and crappy to smoke. Maybe it wasn't the finest tobacco on Earth as they said it was and people just rejected it in the few months it was available.

[teetwoohsix]

I get the feeling that cut plug tobacco back in those times,was used for smoking and chewing,and was probably much different than what we know as "chewing tobacco" today.Dave's Grandfather is a great example of that.Some of the chew that's around today-I cannot see people smoking it!!If you've ever opened a pouch of Red Man Long Cut,I don't see how you could smoke it!!!Maybe dry it out,but I would think it would be unpleasant.Or the grainy Copenhagen?Smoking it?Yuck.

Clayton